fear gains the upperhand

One can sense it gathering ever deeper behind the near panic all around us. There is an invisible  cloud of foreboding and fear settling over the entire planet to which we are wedded for our entire lives. The internet does not reflect this fear as much as the political climate but volcanoes and the weather are great dragons of the technical age.

The most frightening fear is Yellowstone. The entire United States is the crater of a volcano that can take out all living things. Life will return as it likely has every time previous but we will not return with it. Volcanoes are just as dangerous all over the planet as Yellowstone, but it is the conversation within Groups that is indicative of fear.

Consider the climate itself. Fear of even the weather stalks political world views. Ridiculed by some as the Humpty Dumpty Party, adherents are threatening each other and seriously reflecting near panic in their conversations of the future.

Everything coming out of groups is largely involved in recruiting members using fear of the future as the major attraction. People seem to be blaming themselves, anyone, for making the fearful even worse. 

Asteroids are low on the list, but our knowledge and ability to predict is giving us a clearer outlook for the possible disasters which do threaten. 

The constant spiritual struggle escalating between Groups is growing more powerful through communicative advances, and it is the individual who is the most vulnerable because of these advances.

The group does not need the individual and will sacrifice individuals to the group without caution or restraint. The individual however, needs the group for protection and the division of labor. Communication between individuals already welded to their Groups is providing those Group control over their individuals like never before.

Consider the narrow views seen and heard in the general media, all tinged with dread and a fretful fear. There is the smell of war in the air. My grandmother's saying for these situations was, a lot of baby boys being born... means war is nearby. 

from out of the heart the mouth speaks

We all speak for our own benefit. Anyone speaking about someone else is still speaking for their own benefit and will in their conversation tell us more about themselves than anyone they are talking to or about. If you ever are accused of lying then you know the accuser is likely routinely lying himself and therefore why in the world are you not also? 

When anyone tells you this is what you are saying they are telling you what they are saying and put it in your mouth. The stronger they are against you the stronger their tongues speak or even see with their eyes. Not so long ago that we could say recently, a reporter in the oval office wanted to not see what was in his heart so strongly that he insisted he did not see something sitting right in front of him. Everything we say comes from within us.

For example, someone who speaks of racism often will usually begin to see racism everywhere, They become experts in racism, and racism is constantly on their minds. As their sensitivity escalates they will be able to see it as a matter of fact no matter what. So what? This reinforces the ideas of racism outside themselves and confirms their original suspicions. As a result they themselves become even more expert in giving tongue to the devil. 

response ability

Response ability is the ability to respond. Respond is the keyword, since it is just the response itself, with or without the adjective ability. If you do not have the ability to respond then you are singularly not to blame. However, you still have to respond, regardless of blame. In other words you are the only one in the donut hole even if the blame rests with someone else.

This was first demonstrated by a little known theory inaptly named baby in the well. If a baby is placed irresponsibility, on the edge of a well and falls into the well by a gust of wind, the baby remains in the well. Blame however rests wherever it rests. 

All this was in the law since Roman times as relating to intent. Intent does not enter into guilt or responsibility,  Intent regards only degree of sentence by the court. You are not guiltless because you did not intend commit a crime, you are only subject to a lesser or greater sentence as determined by the degree of your intent. 

Spahn and Sain and pray for rain

There are several instances which struck me as to the accuracy of technically exact language as against the spiritually abstract view of any event. This is highlighted in the Spahn and Sain saying often attributed to Billy Southworth of the Boston Braves when he named his starting pitchers for the next day's doubleheader.

It, if I recall inside my version, was not said by Billy at all but rather by a sports writer in his column. And, it was not worded exactly like that at all. Bottom line however, is that the final wording no matter how it arrived was better than the actual technically correct version.

This happens over and over, one could recount examples all day. So which is the best? The abstract one often seen in the distant past that creates the spiritually correct wording that far exceeds the actual recorded words? The ancient historical writers could capture the most memorable incidents several years after an event, more so than a concretely correct recording. The latter version was often cluttered with minutiae that clouded rather than providing any clear explanation of an event.

Numbers, when quoted by the ancients were not exact either. Forty meant a lot of days, not exactly forty. The spirit is always the more accurate and cutting science off from the spiritual limited the gaining of new knowledge from the previously unknown. In these later day however, there is some evidence that science and religion is coming closer. It was a blow when they separated that may be healed in future days, if there are any.

father and the son together

In the New Testament John 3:16 is often thought of as the central verse in the Bible. However, the most important verse in the Old Testament, and the most significant verse in all the Torah is 
Exodus 3:14. 

It says that God is Existence. Specifically I am that I am means existence. The word Hayah is the first person singular meaning existence. This is the report of Moses, credited with being the first to write anything Biblical down. Moses himself does not give this definition, God is answering Moses about who He is. This is God describing Himself.

Yet if you look it up in your hand held you will not find any definition like this until you dig deeper. God is a supreme being seems to be the consensus. All of the definitions come from other people, not one single one quotes Moses' report that God said He was I Am that I Am, meaning existence.

God did not say He created existence, He said he WAS existence. He did not even say he was a supreme being, probably caused by the obvious fact that, in these definitions by men, even idols could bee supreme beings. 

He did not say He was in control, This definition by men is subconsciously created to shift all responsibility for everything off the shoulder's of men and onto God. This requires no belief on our part, for instance God will heal us if we can only persuade Him to do so. No admission of belief is required from us. This despite Jesus said over and over again, if you believe, be it done to you according to your belief. We are not healed by the belief of Jesus, but by our belief in His power. Many believe in Jesus but not His power. I call this view Christian atheism.

So if the atheist does not believe in God he does not believe in existence. 

Forever is not now

Outside it is dark and rain on the roof takes on a persuasive sound above empty rooms. Alone  one thinks of all the people known personally over time many years long gone. Just the passage of time itself is lonely and it does not seem to matter whether they were good times or bad. Both are melancholy. The passage of time alone just by itself is lonely. So many have lived and died. Lost, all eventually forgotten within their own short space of time even as our own space of time is disappearing. It fools us into thinking there is plenty of time left. We know it is not, but we think what we like.

Maybe an awareness of separation from the past does it. Maybe it is the hint of a separating from existence. Nothing could be sadder than the sense of separation from our existence. We need another if we are to be sensitive to ourselves.  I think it is good to have an intense sense of yourself. We do this while living with another. It is enjoyable and for a brief moment we think it will all last forever. Our near orbits progress slowly hurling us apart changing perspectives into a deeper sweeter sadness.   

tiny

Size print so smell make it more likely typos will go uncorrected. Wrriting fast and furious results in tiny but key words skipped over. Just like reading....

everyone likes a mystery

Why are conspiracies I've heard usually mentioned as vast? Perhaps the prominence of the discoverers is to blame. Conspiracies seem to be largely attempts to provide answers where there are no

certainties. Obviously enough. My impression of their vastness is pure anecdotal, naturally so since any further proof would not be worth the effort. Which brings me to why I am drawn to all this is. It is in the UFO column. I tend to discount such subjects as anything psychic as like a verb in search of a so what subject on the horizon. Everyone likes a mystery.  

confessions of a christian

After perfect attendance in sunday school, graduating from a Christian high school, and attending a Christian college I became an avowed atheist. This decision was based on one of the more common fallacies in logic, misplaced authority.

Today I have a page I paid six dollars for, torn from Life magazine of Ted Williams endorsing cigarettes. It is presented in a unique frame under glass. He was an authority of baseball, not of tobacco. I am not aware he ever used cigarettes.

Churches literally do not define God, Luckily God defined Himself. You believe it or you don't. Agreeing is not believing, neither is going along with the pastor, nor even a strong wanting to believe.  

before discussions come definitions

I can see the scene on my way home almost as yesterday. A voice without sound said within me, God is Existence. I cannot recall my age but it happened in those early days before one is conscious of time. I had no idea what the word existence meant nor its' significance. 

Today I am a lot closer to the end of my life than the beginning. I discovered the meaning reading the ancient writers where it was reported by Moses when he asked God who shall he say sent him. 

According to Moses, in very likely the earliest definition of God, that defined Himself as I am that I am. This is an obvious reference to Existence. He did not create existence He is existence. 

Since God is unseen and is universally described as a spirit, in particular a personalized spirit of ourselves, and also since, we were given existence by definition. This we should remind ourselves contributes to a definition, not a theory.

Therefore the earliest spoken definition, God is the personified spirit of existence. This is, as we emphasized earlier is a definition, not a theory. Without a definition how could two individuals discuss it within themselves?

God is, in the popular definition, a or the supreme being, which could easily be confused with idols. Physics  is now quite comfortable discussing the unseen. At one time seeing was believing to many, but it gradually became true to me that believing is seeing. Today this is more universally recognized.

even atheists are faith based

Both the atheist position and all believers in God, with or without a logical definition, cannot anywhere near prove their positions but must base their views on faith for several reasons.

The most obvious reason is lack of anywhere near enough information to make a sensible decision in the matter, Many have little or no respect for their ignorance, since one supposes, they are ignorant of it. Most do not even realize they have a totally inadequate definition of God. When we gain new information and add to our knowledge that alone satisfies quite a few atheists.  

Since there more unknowns than known facts in the matter we cannot escape the necessity of faith to fill the gap. The more answers we gain knowledge of, the more we realize we are learning there are even more questions to gain the answer of. Questions require answers when we are aware of them unlike the seen universe appearing that it is expanding, suggesting a bang starting it all. Many forget they are talking about theories and eventually speak of theories as if they were proven facts. Meanwhile the bang theory is a fallacy in logic begging the question.                                                                                                                                               

living in our head

We all admit to ourselves we are going to die, but not now. It is a good definition of forever. We also sometimes take illustrations as proof. Some of us might remind themselves that illustrations do not prove anything or even make a good case for themselves. Illustrations merely illustrate. Also, theories are theories,  Theories are unproven. Yet when we refer to a theory often enough, especially popular ones, they are merely fill ins for that we do not know scientifically. Our expectations of new information is most often not what we expected at all.  The so-called big bang is a theory. It even suggests a beginning which sounds much like begging the question, which to put it more baldly is a fallacy featured in logic. It pushes the theory up against another theory, so that we are more stacking up theories than anything else.